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Google Curtails
Europe Book Plan

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Peppi Kiviniemi

Updated Sept. 8, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET

BRUSSELS -- Making concessions to European publishers, online-search giant Google Inc. Monday said it will remove all European books that are still commercially available from its $125 million program to scan orphaned and out-of-print books in the U.S. and sell them online.

The concessions come after concerns were voiced by European authors and publishers who don't want the company to scan books by European authors that are still protected by copyrights, without asking their permission.